- Out of this world, man! Oh my God!
Look at that!
- So greetings from Kharkiv I am back in Ukraine's second biggest city student capital and as
you can see I've got my parka on it's not quite winter yet we're in late autumn we got the
beautiful autumn colors so there's lots of like yellows, oranges, red colors here as the
leaves start to fall as we head towards that very severe eastern Ukrainian winter and I've
come down to Kharkiv for a few days because I'm going to meet up with some clients
who are living the tsar experience here in Kharkiv with me this weekend super pumped
to have clients back here again in the east of Ukraine and you might be wondering why
did they decide to come with me to Kharkiv, why not go to a Odesa?
Why not go to Kyiv? That is because well first of all an Odesa is summer capital of Ukraine
and Kyiv well Kyiv is a big cosmopolitan city obviously it's the capital but it does happen
to have a little bit of a touristic feel nowadays and also a lot of romance scams but once you
get out of those more touristic cities and Kharkiv's not small it's like 1.5 million
people then you avoid those problems it reminds me a little bit of Minsk in a sense not because
it looks like Minsk it's more that it doesn't get as many tourists you don't have as big
an issue with scams and stuff like that and the nightlife is a lot of fun and that is
the reason to come to Kharkiv and live the tsar experience with me in a city like Kharkiv
is the fact that it has this I guess less touristic vibe a higher energy in terms of
the nightlife and you can avoid all those romance scams anyways I am about to go and
meet them and have a good hard solid night out here
We're on a night out in crazy Kharkiv in the east of Ukraine and we're starting
off in one of my favorite cocktail bars in the city center we're gonna get a few scoops
in and then hit a few bars a few clubs got Gonzalo with me we're gonna party hard representing Chile
- Yeah!
- Muy bien! Vámonos! [Spanish] - Very good! Let's go! [English]
So what else is going on in Kharkiv it is autumn and this city has beautiful parks it's
actually a really good idea to go and take a stroll through them and just enjoy the beautiful
colors that we have at this time of year of course in the east of Ukraine and this beautiful
beautiful sunny weather it's not always typical in Eastern Europe but definitely you still
have it this time of year so let's go and enjoy a hardcore weekend in Kharkiv and also
this beautiful weather and you see friendly locals who enjoy a little bit of a joke by
Поехали! [Russian] Let's go! [English]
- Gonzalo, what would you say has been your biggest challenge? Your biggest challenge so far in Ukraine?
I would say the language barrier because even if I speak English I don't think they are
so interested in in learn the language so I would say that that was one of
the hardest part because when you use a translator
you kind of kind of lose the you lose the fluency and you lose the frequency so that doesn't work
of course I'm wishing I have a nice summer and my shirt but my shorts but it will come
Ukraine is such a good country when you are in South America or North America you have
the impression that Eastern European countries are cold people is not friendly they don't
smile they're very serious and I've been very impressed because everywhere you go people
is very friendly at you they provide a very good service doesn't matter where you are
it could be a restaurant could be a bar it could be a travel
agency it could be a hotel they've very keen they've very willing I'm very open to helping people
out so I've been very impressed so far and also for instance you can take uber to go
wherever you want you can use your credit card easily if you feel like at home sim cards
work very well so it doesn't matter where you go you just feel like at home the only
thing that well at this time of the year the only thing that I don't like is the weather
I wish I could have a nice summer in my shorts but it will come
I'll be back in six months It'll be completely different
- How are you feeling, Jason?
- Feel great yeah it's been a good trip - It's been phenomenal, I think